I’m almost 50, and after years of lifting I’ve built solid muscle, but I was sitting around 25% body fat. Most of that concern now is about health—mainly getting visceral fat down—so I decided to dial things in.

Here’s the basic approach that has actually worked for me:

**1. Keep the base diet c...

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What has worked for me

• 24 hour fasting once a week
• At most one sugary drink every other day, and under 200 calories
• so none of the 500calorie starbucks drinks
• A normal healthy diet of home cooked foods with an aim on high protein/calorie ratio (divide protein by calorie per serving an...

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I am lazy and I hate calorie counting and I am not keen on having a limit on how much I eat a day.

I am pretty fit and strong, and lift weights regularly every week, but I had quite a bit of a gut, and was probably over 25% body fat.

I cut out drinks with sugar in them, eating after dinner, an...

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